Chris Sky - Siwaar Al Assad

24 Jun

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Writing Refugee Experiences with Truth, Not Pity

June 24, 2025
By Chris Sky
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There’s a dangerous temptation when writing about refugees: to reduce them to victims. It happens even with the best intentions. You wa...

24 Jun

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What War and Displacement Taught Me About the Power of Storytelling

June 24, 2025
By Chris Sky
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There are wounds that don’t bleed. They appear in silence, in hesitation, in the way someone pauses before answering a simple question ...

24 Jun

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Books That Help You Understand Syrian Culture, Beyond the Headlines

June 30, 2025
By Chris Sky
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Syria is often spoken about in the past tense. In news cycles and political debates, it’s reduced to ruins and warzones, to ceasefires ...

24 Jun

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Why Syrian History Lives in My Stories, Even When It’s Unspoken

June 24, 2025
By Chris Sky
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I don’t always write about Syria directly. But Syria is always in what I write. You can feel it in the silence between my characters. I...

24 Jun

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What Writing Diverse Characters Taught Me About Listening and Responsibility

June 24, 2025
By Chris Sky
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There’s a moment every writer dreads when you stare at a character on the page and realize you might be getting them wrong. Not just in...

24 Jun

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How Novels Capture the Quiet Storm of Personal Transformation

June 30, 2025
By Chris Sky
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There’s something about watching a character fall apart and slowly rebuild themselves. That always gets to me. Perhaps it’s because per...

26 May

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Western Media Through an Eastern Lens

May 26, 2025
By Chris Sky
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Growing up in Syria, I was immersed in stories—those told by my family, whispered in the streets, and broadcasted over the airwaves. Bu...

26 May

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Books That Changed My Life — And Might Change Yours

June 3, 2025
By Chris Sky
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Books have always been more than just stories to me; they’ve been companions, mentors, and mirrors reflecting parts of myself I hadn’t ...

26 May

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How Syria’s History Shapes My Writing

May 26, 2025
By Chris Sky
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Introduction You don’t choose the country you’re born into. But it does, in many ways, choose the stories you end up telling. I was...

26 May

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Why I Wrote A Coeur Perdu

May 26, 2025
By Chris Sky
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People often ask why I wrote A Coeur Perdu. I never have one single answer—because stories like this don’t begin on a clean page. They ...

Posts by Chris Sky

Writing Refugee Experiences with Truth, Not Pity

What War and Displacement Taught Me About the Power of Storytelling

Books That Help You Understand Syrian Culture, Beyond the Headlines

Why Syrian History Lives in My Stories, Even When It’s Unspoken

What Writing Diverse Characters Taught Me About Listening and Responsibility

How Novels Capture the Quiet Storm of Personal Transformation

Western Media Through an Eastern Lens

Books That Changed My Life — And Might Change Yours

How Syria’s History Shapes My Writing

Why I Wrote A Coeur Perdu

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